@gruber Hiya, random question if you don't mind: Your original Markdown post had a suggested $50 fee for commercial use, did you ever get any payouts from that?
One of the earliest examples of trying to monetize open source! Curious how successful it was in that era.
@shazow But when I say it didn’t work, I should also add that I didn’t push hard with new ways to try to get donations for it. Daring Fireball itself started taking off financially around 2006 and that was good enough for me. I consider Markdown part of my work at DF, and I’m proud not to have a paywall for my writing or for Markdown.
@shazow Couple hundred bucks total. Maybe $1000 after a year or two? It didn’t work. Everything was easier just giving up on monetizing it all and setting it free with a BSD style license.
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